Site Seeing

By JULES ALLEN

© St. Petersburg Times,
published August 6, 2001

Feel free to browse

It's a small world after all

www.DisneyTattooGuy.com/disneyhouse.htm

Here's a great site for justifying one's minor obsessive-compulsive tendencies. I have a compulsion to own thick computer books and proudly categorize them. Another obsession is a messy desk that rarely gets organized. Compared to Tattooed Disney Guy, these household infractions are insignificant. And let's not even get into visiting a tattoo parlor no less than 1,000 times to have Disney images engraved all over the body. Gosh, I'm almost normal in comparison.

Outlook must-have

www.Inachis.com/product_info/index.htm

Bad economy? Who are you kidding? I've had no less than three people ask me how to move their Outlook Express mail and address books to whizzy new PCs in the past couple of weeks. There's more than one way to do the job: One involves oodles of time and bunches of manual steps, and the other will cost you a mere 10 euros (about $8 or so) and do it all automatically for you. There's a 90-day free trial before you have to register, which isn't half bad. I prefer Eudora to Outlook Express because it works the same on the Mac as it does on Windows. And it's a piece of cake to back up.

Google rival?

www.Teoma.com

Imagine the gall of challenging search engine darling Google! How can this be? Google is king of finding all but lost car keys. In all seriousness, Teoma isn't bad, even if I can't figure out how to pronounce it. Supposedly the version you'll use is in beta test and could go away in the future. The idea is that this showcase site struts its stuff so that potential buyers can play before they pay. Keeping it as a public search site hasn't been ruled out, apparently. In the meantime, you've got an equally fast rival to Google to add to your search selection armory. I particularly like the folders metaphor for organizing similar collections of sites and URLs.

Feed your inner nerd

www.NewScientist.com/lastword/

She Who Must Be Obeyed keeps asking me if I know everything. And I really don't know, to tell you the truth. Maybe if I just act like I know everything it will give the impression that I am the font of knowledge. If you'd like to pretend you know everything, too, bookmark this one at New Scientist and add it to your dinner party rotation. It's a compendium of answers to questions such as why don't we sneeze when we sleep, what time is it at the North Pole and how does ironing work? If you know the answers to those, maybe you can take a crack at the Answers Please area on this site and show the whole world what a smarty pants you are.

Not splitting hairs

www.MentalHealth.com/dis/p20-ps01.html

Schizophrenia, according to a friend, is probably the worst mental illness one can have, and it consistently gets a bad rap in the media and entertainment industry, such as recently when I incorrectly used the term in a Site Seeing item. It turns out that schizophrenia doesn't mean split personality or disorganized thoughts at all. If the latter were the case, we'd all be schizophrenic at least once a day. In the simplest terms, schizophrenia is defined as any of a group of psychotic disorders usually characterized by withdrawal from reality, illogical patterns of thinking, delusions or hallucinations and accompanied in varying degrees by other emotional, behavioral or intellectual disturbances. Thanks for the correction and education.

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